Can anyone help me with my thesis paper? My professor wrote this on my rought draft?

Question

Here is where the problems are. You are attempting to write a literature review, which is not correct. The purpose of a thesis is to use research to back up your own thoughts and ideas about a topic. Here, you are just discussing someone else’s work.

Answer 1

Try to write about something that is mainly your opinion and cannot be proved only with the book you read-- you are going to have to do a bunch of research (which sucks but oh well, that's school for ya.)

Example, I once did a paper where I claimed that one of the main characters was tragically flawed in a way similar to more famous characters such as Hamlet and Oedipus. I claimed that he was a confusing character that was basically doomed because he had the tragic flaw of hypocrisy. This isnt traditionally a tragic flaw, so I defined what a tragic flaw was and related that to how his hypocrisy could be considered a flaw. I then compared it to Hamlet and Oedipus.

Sounds nuts, but I got the idea from a definition *from a class taught by a different teacher.* The reasons: it makes it look like you know something about literature that they didn't teach you, and it makes it look like you put extra research into it- they like originality.

Good luck, tell me if you have specifics that you want ideas for.

Answer 2

She is trying to tell you that instead of doing a 'book report' type of paper, she wants you to make an opinionated statement about whatever it is you are writing about.

It seems you have read a book and must write a paper on it. You must find something in the book that you can have an opinion on and talk about. Like for example your story is about a boy who is always in trouble at school.... as you read the book you feel that his trouble is school is a direct result of the bullying, teasing and abuse he receives from his step-brother (that is your statement), then you go on to support that statement with examples of instances from the book. Finish with a conclusion that poses a question to the reader to question their own opinion of the topic.

Thesis: Poe's Gothic narrators ultimately become insane because they cannot distinguish between beauty and decay.

Topic: Poe's Gothic narrators...

Assertion: ...ultimately become insane because they cannot distinguish between beauty and decay.

A thesis statement IS NOT:
A question : Is the death penalty a good reflection of our society's ideology?
A list: Personal success results from people skills, hard work, and persistence.
A vague/obvious assertion: Most people would like to be happy.
A merely opinionated/combative assertion: Only someone with a killer mentality could be against stem cell research.

Generally, a thesis statement appears at the beginning or end of the first paragraph of an essay so readers will have a clear idea of what to expect as they read.

As you write and revise your paper, it's okay to change your thesis statement — sometimes you don't discover what you really want to say about a topic until you've finished writing. Just make sure that your final thesis statement accurately shows what will happen in your paper.

Answer 3

You made a common mistake of stating what the book was about instead of trying to prove a point. What you need to do is find something in life or the book and come up with some arguable statement. Then use the book to back it up.

For example, in Goldilocks and the Three Bears your thesis might be: "Goldilocks is an insecure person who is never content until she explores all of the options". Then you would use the beds, oatmeal, and bathrobe as supporting evidence.

Another thesis idea is to link one author's idea to another. This would be something like saying that Frederick Nietzsche based his ideas off of the works of Milton and to show that threw different common themes and the title "Thus Spake Zarathustra ".

Answer 4

Basically your professor feels that you're effortlessly utilising literature to again up assertions that experience already been made. The factor of a thesis is to arise with a specified speculation (one that has now not been offered earlier than). You then use study to turn out your speculation. If you utilize study to again up an announcement that has already been made, you're effortlessly writing a evaluation or evaluation of anyone else's present paintings; in a thesis paper, you're anticipated to make your possess specified assertions and again them up with study to kind a cohesive argument

Answer 5

The best way to come up with a thesis is this.
1. Ask yourself a question about your topic.
2. Your answer is your thesis statement.
3. Now you have to support your thesis statement (explain why your answer is right) with facts and arguments.

Answer 6

what you did is like a review of what is written, like a summary. what you need to do is write a thesis take a point on the question that needs to be answered in the research. then use facts to support you side.

Answer 7

What troubles you about the book?

Take this idea and explore the topic. Come up with several senerios and discuss why or why not each one is plausable.

Teachers love it when you explain things.... Try again and good luck!

Answer 8

' Can anyone help'? topic then a fact, and then another fact fallowed by a conclusion ?????